MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Issues with transferring books to my Kobo Aura 2nd Edition

davidfor · 01-07-2022, 05:58 AM

That "template" looks like a regular expression on the "Adding books" page of the preferences. That is used to extract the basic metadata from the file name when a book is added to calibre. It is not used when sending the book to a device.

If you have set the above as the save template in the driver, then it is working exactly as designed. What you have done being used as the file name. And as there are no directory names the generated file name, the books will be put in the root directory of the device.

You will need to change the save template in the whichever of the built-in KoboTouch driver or the KoboTouchExtended driver that you are using. The simplest way to do this is connect the device, wait for the device jobs to run, then right-click on the device button and choose the option to configure the driver. In the configuration dialog, the first tab has the "Save template" field. To get going, I suggest using the default template, which looks like:

Code:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

That will create a subdirectory for each author and put the books into that directory as appropriate.

If you want some other structure, you can change the template to whatever is needed. And there is always someone here who can help with that.

01-07-2022, 05:58 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	That "template" looks like a regular expression on the "Adding books" page of the preferences. That is used to extract the basic metadata from the file name when a book is added to calibre. It is not used when sending the book to a device. If you have set the above as the save template in the driver, then it is working exactly as designed. What you have done being used as the file name. And as there are no directory names the generated file name, the books will be put in the root directory of the device. You will need to change the save template in the whichever of the built-in KoboTouch driver or the KoboTouchExtended driver that you are using. The simplest way to do this is connect the device, wait for the device jobs to run, then right-click on the device button and choose the option to configure the driver. In the configuration dialog, the first tab has the "Save template" field. To get going, I suggest using the default template, which looks like: Code: {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} That will create a subdirectory for each author and put the books into that directory as appropriate. If you want some other structure, you can change the template to whatever is needed. And there is always someone here who can help with that.